Is anyone else happy and in disbelief at how fast movies go to DVD nowadays? lol

[The Devil's Advocate]

Off the top usually the big blockbusters. E.T, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Titanic.

Check out how long ET was out.

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Weekly Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo

cause back then, everyone didn't have a VHS...

and letterbox editions cost ONE HUNDRED fukkING DOLLARS

nowadays it cost less than $1 to make a dvd.. and they sell it at 19.99 minimum... they ain't waiting on that money no more

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

it was only like 5 bucks a video.

yea for 1 rental for 1 day.. late fee was a whole nother $5 per day

compare that to rolling up to redbox and getting 5 dvds for that price plus some code for 1-2 free

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Most movies suck these days


Or am I just getting old and cynical

 

[FlyRy]

These young kids just don't know how bad it was back in the days. Movies use to take like 8 to 10 months before it was on home video.

the lotr movies were the worst..they'd come out in dec in theatres and you'd have to wait til like late november for the DVD. they'd whet your appetite for the next installment coming a few weeks later. but at least they had a shyt load of features.. nowadays movies come out on bluray in 2 or 3 months and have no features.. word to wolf of wall street

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

These young kids just don't know how bad it was back in the days. Movies use to take like 8 to 10 months before it was on home video.

Seemed like Toy Story took TWO YEARS to hit the home video market.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

like what?

How you think Titanic made all that money

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Internet and sophisticated pirating has forced the studios to do early releases as well as on demand services that drop before the dvd.

 

[WHolla09]

I remember Christmas movies would take a whole year to get released on video. at waiting a whole year to see Jingle All The Way on video. What's really crazy is how quick movies are hitting HBO, Starz and other channels. Best Man Holiday was on HBO yesterday and it came out in November. I remember it used to take a whole year to do that

 

[tr2k]

Most movies suck these days


Or am I just getting old and cynical

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I actually discovered SOHH because of your legendary megaupload thread


I was in that thread a whole month before I even realized this was a hip hop forum.

 

[tr2k]

I actually discovered SOHH because of your legendary megaupload thread


I was in that thread a whole month before I even realized this was a hip hop forum.

Yeah, I never go to the main site. These new movies are for the kids though.

 

[TKOK]

I remember Christmas movies would take a whole year to get released on video. at waiting a whole year to see Jingle All The Way on video. What's really crazy is how quick movies are hitting HBO, Starz and other channels. Best Man Holiday was on HBO yesterday and it came out in November. I remember it used to take a whole year to do that

Yeah i noticed that too. Couple weeks ago I was flipping through channels and saw Thor 2 was on starz. movie hadn't even been released 7 months.

the lotr movies were the worst..they'd come out in dec in theatres and you'd have to wait til like late november for the DVD. they'd whet your appetite for the next installment coming a few weeks later. but at least they had a shyt load of features.. nowadays movies come out on bluray in 2 or 3 months and have no features.. word to wolf of wall street

HBO does that too. releases Game of Thrones like a month before the new season.

 

[DaveyDave]

like what?

i listened to a podcast recently, reviewing 2001 Space Oddessy & they said it stayed in theatres for 4 YEARS!!!

btw great podcast if you like movie reviews it's called Now Playing, they do new & old movies, retrospectives of the entire series and the opinions are great IMO, look it up on itunes.